A childhood chore delights the president and Global News readers

Our social media feeds have been buzzing this week with everything from Hurricane Irma to an amber alert out of Quebec and the latest on North Korea. Out of all of the top stories circulating on the interwebs, these are the ones that got people the most engaged:

There’s no doubt that Global News readers have been following Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma closely, but one story about residents abandoning their pets while fleeing Hurricane Irma really pulled at your heart strings. Readers interacted with this post more than 32,000 times, but there was no debate here: most commenters concluded that this was a heartless act.

A dog walks through a flooded street in a rural part of Naples the day after Hurricane Irma swept through the area on September 11, 2017 in Naples, Florida.